Objective:
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Students will explore the space and define a place in the environment.
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Goal
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Students will create a domain with boundaries. They will experience a sense of dwelling and place. A haptic experience of space.
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Materials
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Rope, paper tubes, sheets of plastic, paper, fabric, cardboard boxes, string, yarn anything you can find and lots of it.
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Procedure
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Outdoors
Use the playground or an area with trees, rocks, fence, etc. The more objects around the better. Define a vague boundary (Go as far as . . . .). Use the collected materials to connect the objects in the environment. Make a few suggestions, such as, “Connect the tree to the stone using a row of boxes, go from there to the fence with yarn, etc. Think high and 1ow.” Let the students work until they show signs of having fully explored the space. Encourage teamwork and decision making. When they’ve finished, ask them to “freeze”. Ask them to move through the space noticing the new shapes they’ve created -going over and under, around, etc. Is there an area where they feel more or less comfortable? A place they’d like to stay and make more their own? What else could be done? How do you get in or out? Dismantle stress the importance of leaving the environment as they found it or better.
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Indoors
You may want to do this outdoors first! Invite students to look high and low far and near within the room. Explore the space using the collected materials. Door knobs may be connected to light fixtures, chairs stacked to create a fort, etc. (They’re dying to do this kind of thing anyway why not try it in a controlled situation?) When they’re finished, ask them to move around in the spaces. Dismantle try it in slow motion.
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